928 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

kept, and County Surveyor shall receive a fee of one dollar for
each plat so filed with him.

SEC. 85B. The clerk of the said Circuit Court and the County
Surveyor of said county shall provide, and the County Commis-
sioners of said county shall pay for suitable books to be desig-
nated Plat Book No. &c., in which such plats shall be affixed.

SEC. 85F. Such plats when filed for record as in this Act pro-
vided, shall constitute a part of the land records of said
county, and shall have the same force and effect as to notice as
is now given the properly recorded deeds.

SEC. 85G. When said plats are so recorded, those portions of
said land designated on said plats as streets, roads, avenues,
lanes, alleys and public parks or squares, shall be and the same
are hereby declared to be forever dedicated to public use and
shall not thereafter, on any pretext whatsoever, be altered or
taken for private use; provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall effect the right of any person or persons owning
or claiming any interest in said land derived by, from or under
any persons other than the maker of such plat, or by, from or
under such maker prior to such sub-division; and provided
further, that the maker of any such plat or plats, his heirs or
assigns, shall have the right to apply by petition to the Circuit
Court for said county, for leave to abandon the sub-division of
lands so made by him, and reconvert the same into one tract or
parcel; and said court, if convinced upon such proof, and after
such notice by publication or otherwise or as it shall direct
that no damage can be in any wise sustained by persons other
than the petitioners, shall have power to pass an order author-
izing and empowering such petitioner to abandon such sub-divi-
sion, either in whole or in part, and the proceedings had under
such petition shall be docketed in the equity dockets and re-
corded in the equity or judgment records of said court, the peti-
tioners in all cases paying the just costs and charges for like
work, and when such orders are passed the clerk of said court
shall endorse on the plat affected hereby, the dates and place of
record of such orders.

SEC, 85H. Whenever the owner of any lands of which a plat
has been heretofore made and placed in the land record books of
said county shall cause to be made an exact copy of said platr
except as to necessary change of scale and the addition of such
matter as may be necessary to make the same conform to the
requirements of the preceding sections, and shall comply with
the requirements of the preceding sections as applied to plats of
new sub-divisions, the same may be admitted to record and filed
as other plats, and the said clerks shall endorse upon the record